Chapter 20: Annexation of the Kingdom of Ji

Ji Hou didn't care much about the minister's reminder, ten years ago, Qi Guo wanted to attack Ji Guo at that time, and pulled Song Guo and Wei Guo together, and then he was beaten up by Lu Guo Ji Guo and Zheng Guo together. Three years ago, the state of Qi and the state of Song again attacked the state of Lu, and then they were defeated again.

The successive defeats made Ji Guo feel that the strength of Qi was declining day by day. Therefore, after Ji Hou learned that Qi was conquering Huaiyi and Dongyi, he was relieved. The soldiers were dismissed, leaving only a part to guard the capital.

Wang Chengfu led a large army to the expedition, and soon Huaiyi, Dongyi, and Laiguo all got the news and began to recruit soldiers to prepare for a big battle with Qi.

The disputes between Huaiyi, Dongyi, Laiguo and Qi have been around for two hundred years, and for two hundred years, the two sides can be said to have won and lost each other, but on the whole, they are not much different. Of course, this is on the surface, but in fact, after the reform, the strength of the Qi State has far surpassed them.

It's just that when Huaiyi, Dongyi, and Laiguo were preparing, the army of Qi suddenly went north halfway and directly attacked Ji State.

In the face of the attack of the Qi State, the Ji State was caught off guard, but in just three days, more than a dozen cities were breached, and the Qi army came directly to the Ji Capital.

As soon as he got the attack of the Qi State, Ji Hou hurriedly gathered a large army to resist. It's a pity that the time is too late, and by the time the army of Qi arrived, Ji Hou had only gathered about half of the army.

By this time, it was already ready to be fired. Wang Chengfu led the Qi army to attack, and Ji Hou lined up outside the city to fight against him.

It's a pity that Ji Guo has not kept up with the changes of the times, and has been left far behind by Qi State. The army rushed to kill, Ji Guo was defeated and lost, and Ji Hou was only spared and fled back to the capital.

The soldiers of Ji State are not the opponents of Qi State at all, and the armor rate is far inferior, and even the training level is a lot worse, how can they be the opponents of Qi State?

The state of Qi defeated the army of the state of Ji, and then took advantage of the situation to attack the city. Ji was besieged, reinforcements did not arrive, and there was a big defeat, Ji Hou was frightened by a battle outside the city, and he led people to flee regardless of the country.

And the whole of Ji Guo saw that Ji Hou had already run away, where was he still willing to fight to the death, and they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and Qi Guo paid extremely slight casualties and broke through Ji Guo.

Ji Hou fled, and Ji Guo was destroyed. The State of Qi forcibly relocated the residents of the three towns of Ji Guo, Yan and Yu to Qi, and moved the Qi people to the residents of the three Yi of Yan, Yan and Xu, and the Ji State did not exist.

The Kingdom of Ji, which had been entangled with the State of Qi for two hundred years, was destroyed in one dynasty, which greatly shocked the Huaiyi, Dongyi and Lai Kingdoms. And after the State of Qi annexed the State of Ji, it did not stop, but the army continued to march south.

Under the pressure of the Qi State, the Huaiyi Dongyi Lai Kingdom united and wanted to fight against the Qi State.

In fact, Huaiyi has been attacked and annexed by Huai over the years, and is about to die out, in fact, these Huaiyi tribes have merged with Dongyi, and Laiguo has been fighting with Qi for two hundred years, but now it has been blocked on the Jiaodong Peninsula by Qi and Ju and Tan.

If the cage cannot be defeated, it is only a matter of time before the kingdom of Lai is destroyed.

The army of Qi came with the power of destroying the country, and the Huaiyi Dongyi Lai Kingdom gathered a large army to fight against it. The armies of both sides face each other in the wilderness. The morale of the army of Qi was high, the armor was sharp, and Yi Di was invincible, and he was defeated one after another.

The army has been retreating for more than 100 miles, and this can barely stop the army of Qi.

Seeing that the army of Qi was strong, the Yidi coalition army did not dare to fight, relying on the city and river to defend. wants to delay and let the grain and grass of Qi run out and retreat.

Wang Cheng's father attacked several times, and the Qi army suffered many casualties, but the results were not large. Wang Chengfu was unwilling to pay more casualties, so he confronted the Lai Yi coalition army.

After discovering that the losses in the frontal breakthrough were too large, Wang Chengfu asked people to plant more flags, build more camps, set up more campfires, and let soldiers enter and exit between the camps every day, so that the Laiyi coalition army thought that the Qi army was still here.

Then Wang Chengfu dispatched an army of 30,000 and ordered the army to spare this place and attack Donglai. If the sneak attack is successful, the Qi State will naturally win. Even if the sneak attack fails, and the army threatens the capital on the side, Lai Guo will definitely send a large army back, and the coalition army will inevitably fall apart at that time.

Qi State attacked with the momentum, Lai Guo was worried that the rear would be lost, so he would not dare to stay, and Huaiyi and Dongyi were not strong enough, how could they stop it.

After Wang Cheng's father divided his troops, he still sent a part of the army to challenge every day, and at the same time carried out training for the army, sent scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the coalition army, and if the coalition army showed signs of retreat, the army immediately attacked.

The Lai coalition did not realize that Qi had divided its troops into two routes, and even because the vast majority of the troops were pinned down here, the rest of Lai was empty.

The 30,000 partial divisions of the Qi State were dispatched, and soon made a detour to the north, crossed the Jiaohe River, and then drove straight into the country and directly attacked Donglai, the capital of the Lai State.

Fortunately, Lai Guo and Qi Guo have been fighting for many years, fighting all year round, and they are very vigilant against Qi State, although the Qi State army came quickly, but Lai Guo still reacted in time and blocked the sneak attack of 30,000 troops.

Lai Guo never thought that Qi Guo would go deep alone, and an army of 30,000 would raid. Lai Guo had no choice but to send envoys overnight to gather reinforcements.

For a time, reinforcements from all over the country came to support, but these reinforcements were only a few thousand people, and the few were only more than a hundred people.

The people in Donglai City were panicked, and the messenger went to the front line overnight to ask for help.

When the front-line coalition army learned that Qi had sent a partial division to attack Donglai, they were also shocked. The generals of Lai immediately wanted to retreat back to help, but were dissuaded by the Huaiyi Dongyi coalition army.

"The army of Qi is eyeing from the side. If you retreat at this time, the Qi army will rush and kill, and the coalition army will collapse immediately. At that time, not only will we not be able to save Donglai, but we will also die! ”

"The division of troops in the Qi country, the strength will definitely weaken at this time, we and the coalition army might as well dispatch the whole army, take the opportunity to break the Qi army, and then go back to the division to rescue Donglai, not only can the crisis of the country be solved, but the Qi army will also be wiped out."

"The Qi army has suffered heavy losses, and we may be able to attack the Qi country!"

After some deliberation, everyone thought that this plan was feasible. Immediately, the army was exhausted, wanting to rely on the superiority of troops to break through the Qi State. And Wang Cheng's father saw that the Lai Guo coalition army was actually dispatched, and immediately understood that the Qi State division had succeeded.

immediately did not fight hard with the coalition army, so that the army could not stand out of the camp.

Seeing that Qi did not dare to fight, the coalition army of Lai Guo thought that Qi was cowardly, and immediately rejoiced and launched an attack. The Qi army responded calmly, relying on the defense of the large battalion, and the Lai coalition army attacked several times, but was repelled by the Qi state.

Instead of defeating the Qi army, the army suffered a lot of losses. In three days, the coalition forces captured only a few empty tents. The strong attack did not have an effect, the morale of the coalition forces was low, and Lai Guo was even more worried about the loss of Donglai, and strongly demanded a retreat.

In the end, the coalition forces argued endlessly, and each had to lead his army to retreat.

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In the fifth year of the Duke of Qi Huan, the State of Qi destroyed Yidi, and the State of Ji and the Kingdom of Lai.